Felix Magath completes Fulham back four with Kay Voser signing

After two years of waiting, Fulham have finally treated themselves to an actual left-back by signing Swiss 27-year-old Kay Voser.

Joining on a two-year deal, with the option of a third, Voser is the apparent final piece to Felix Magath’s back-four puzzle that was so inadequate last season it cost us our Premier League status.

While there hasn’t been a great deal reported on what Fulham can expect from their new signing – other than the fact that he was part of the FC Basle team that beat Chelsea in Jose Mourinho’s first Champions League tie after returning to the Bridge – Voser has experience in winning things from his time in Switzerland.

Something that, although won’t translate absolutely, should set him in good stead now that he has signed for a team that, for the first time in a long while, is challenging to win something.

Aside from that, Voser is of a good age – not too young and, unfamiliarly so for Fulham, not too old – where he should be more than capable of keeping up with the pace of the modern game, something that John Arne Riise struggled with last season.

Joining the club alongside Dan Burn and the recently signed centre-back Shaun Hutchinson and right-back Tim Hoogland, Fulham’s new look back-four is very much an untried formula, but with the best part of the pre-season still ahead, the defence have a great opportunity in which to acclimatise to one another before our first game at Ipswich.

How Fulham’s entire squad will look come the start of the season however, still remains to be seen, as the uncharacteristically good Bryan Ruiz continues to dazzle in Brazil, Besiktas sniff around our Greek sick-note Kostas Mitroglou, and we desperately try and keep hold of the ever-slipping shirt of Ashkan Dejagah.

The same is to be said going the other way too, however, as the recent dominating headlines of Ross McCormack joining Fulham for a hugely inflated fee, overshadow the actual work being done by Magath – like signing Kay Voser.

But for now that’s a good thing. Fulham are still very much in the thick of a rebuilding process and the more players we can sign under radar to strengthen our team, ultimately, the better.